Presenting himself as a downtrodden, albeit chipper, data analyst for a supermarket chain he talks naturally about his low status and inability to get laid without ever feeling like he’s particularly ...

Another rhyming couplet of well-to-do white boys in matching suits, Finlay Stroud and Joe Peden are purveying some straight-down-the-line sketch comedy in their characterless room at the top of some ...

There are more than a few badly acted, laboriously written, achingly earnest melodramas at every Fringe. Some of them are even deliberate, like this, Andrew Doherty’s follow-up to his breakthrough Gay ...

A huge amount of food for thought then, which you’ll have plenty of time to chew over while watching Caulfield’s 2025 show Bad Mood Rising, owing to the fact that this one isn’t actually very good.

With a fairly traditional approach to sketch, Quirks and Foibles are not reinventing the wheel. But their show – family-friendly without talking down – hits the right notes, with the trio’s jolly ...

8 OUT OF 10 CATS DOES COUNTDOWN: Roisin Conaty and Phil Wang play against Joe Wilkinson and Lou Sanders, with David O'Doherty joining Susie Dent in Dictionary Corner. Channel 4, 9pm ...

Susan Harrison plays a Sindy doll – more than slightly insecure about comparisons with Barbie – in this sketch from Chortle’s Fast Fringe. The sketch comes from her 2025 Edinburgh Fringe show Should I ...

It’s always nice when a comic gets a few miles on them before turning to stand-up, and with three decades as an accountant and a single mum, Samantha Day had certainly built up the relevant life ...

I think a non-verbal, universally agreed upon sign for ‘I think your work is cool but I’m not going to be weird about it’ would save us all, but especially me, a lot of embarrassment and time.

With a decade’s worth of circuit experience, Thanyia Moore thought she was going to storm the Edinburgh Fringe with her 2022 debut like Usain Bolt stormed the 2012 Olympics. But her best-laid plans ...

The profundity of anything more than silliness itself is left to more cerebral or earthy modern clowns like Dr. Brown or Trygve Wakenshaw; Tape Face is committed to pointless playfulness for better or ...

Yep, Eric Rushton has incorporated a new lothario swagger into his comic persona. All of which works comedically because, I’m sorry to report, it’s coming from someone with an otherwise pretty dweeby ...